Before beginning to understand the techniques involved in successfully leading others, it is important to begin with effective self-leadership, and this module is all about you. We will take you through a variety of concepts that encourage both self-understanding and development to set you up for success in your Pathway journey.

From here, we then provide you the tools and resources on how to effectively champion change management for your projects and beyond. We teach key fundamental elements to ensure you are leading change in an impactful and successful manner.

Leading others and teams is both a highly rewarding, enriching experience that does on occasion present challenges. The key focus of this module is to set you up for success with all the skills and knowledge you need to confidently lead your team’s growth, whilst also eliminating any challenges you may face along the way. The topics covered include building high performing teams, managing performance, giving feedback, and handling difficult conversations for positive outcomes.

The leading commercially module opens with learning the key financial principal’s essential to leading any successful business. Once you have obtained knowledge in the fundamental financial areas, we then take you through how to interpret the financial information provided to you as a store partner and how to utilise it to maintain business growth. The topics covered include, profit and loss, balance sheets. debtors and banking reports.

This module covers all the key information on best practice, customer journey and operations in addition to insights on life as a Specsavers Joint Venture Partner.

A number of activities will take place outside of the module training to support your learning, allow you to consolidate your knowledge, and provide you with opportunities to apply and practice your new skills.

Our Pathway Guide designed to guide you through the Pathway program, including the process to Partnership, Pathway modules, Pathway implementation activities, Pathway project, and an overview of the Final Assessment.

As part of your Pathway journey, you will also be provided a Pathway Workbook for you to lean on as a resource during each of your modules.

Both of these together will be pivotal to your success in planning your project and understanding your implementations in preparation for your assessments.

The final stage of Pathway is an assessment to evaluate your level of development and to identify suitable timelines for your progression into partnership. You will present your learning journey to a panel of key Specsavers Support team members to demonstrate what you have learned from the program as well as your capability as a leader. In addition, the final assessment involves a financial awareness test, a project presentation, and a role play of a difficult conversation.

Future Partner Forum is the next phase of the development journey for Pathway graduates while they await a suitable Specsavers partnership opportunity. The forum sets to further enhance leadership skills and commercial acumen, preparing them for business ownership.